Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-52/ this week in sentences: monsters, strategy, high doses, groomed for gravitas, marriages and dishwashers, the promise of attempt, an emotion

the dril economy tweet but instead of candles it's Good Fonts

Found Anakin Skywalker's Wario

Thrown out of the AA meeting for calling someone's share a "tight five"

"It's important to me that a romantic partner can make me laugh but I would never in my life date a comedian" only sounds like a paradox if you've never met a comedian

always have to remind myself when I feel like I'm not doing enough that at that this time of year I get a little depressed anyway because my dad died on Christmas, you would think I would understand this by now

There's a framed photo of the cast of Moonstruck hung up

It's not that I expect most nonprofit arts orgs of NYC to be taking a stand for Palestine right now but feels gross seeing one that I am an alum of (Eyebeam) post fundraising slide shows talking about "art in times of crisis" in end of year fundraising w/o ever speaking to the crisis of genocide?

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-51/ this week in sentences: constant betrayal, peat, lidless, tumbleweed, his interpretive perspicacity, aloof austerity, just a head crawling, sometimes the world, inert matter

Got a new tattoo because this year has been a lot but I am still alive

It's based on a drawing of a quartz crystal I found in the National Archives when I was researching high purity quartz mining in Brazil during WWII

why do the residents of Omelas think the economy is bad when the data shows

GPU themed diss track that rhymes "Nvidia" and "chlamydia"

So this episode is also pretty weird to release now because an uptick in militia fighting in DRC has drawn media attention back to the issue of "conflict minerals"—I've seen campaigns where people are quitting vaping in solidarity w/people of the Congo? Which, IDK. I hope this deeper dive into the longer history of tantalum mining in DRC is helpful for ppl just now learning about it.

https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/2500-and-a-dream-fansteel-and-the-history-of-tantalum new RIP Corp and it is a doozy of an episode!! Tantalum, labor strikes, colonialism, war, a million things. I am nervous about it because there's so much packed in here and also it's based on some of my master's thesis research so it feels kind of precious to me.